#sai

A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #am #ancient #asked #assigned

The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I've tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women, and millions like them across America, to join our cause and get this country working again. When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, 'Let's get this done' - and that is exactly, what we're going to do. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#again #america #ask #asked #been

As I said a moment ago, there is no higher priority in our budget, or certainly in the budgets of the past few years, than providing for what is needed for the protection and security of our country and support of our troops. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#budget #budgets #certainly #country #few

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player. ↗

— Marat Safin

#become #chances #football #football player #i

Our military commanders have said over and over again that a timetable for withdrawal sends the wrong message to our troops, but more importantly to our enemy. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#commanders #enemy #importantly #message #military

I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not. ↗

— Nia Long

#after #brian #going #i #me

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#directly #evoke #institutions #might #nearly

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#madmen #run #saint #worst

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper. ↗

— Philip Schaff

#church #code #deeds #ever #founded

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#constitution #itself #said #touchstone #ultimate